I felt quite held-up by taxation lately. My withholding tax gobbled up my 3.9 grand last quincena. It used to be just over 1.5 grand twice a month. Now, with the looks of it, it will be a grand 7.8 per month! Even greater than my expected 7.3 overload per month. All I could do is whine against all the corrupt people who designed the tax table, whether old or new, to GENERATE MORE REVENUE so that the government can use all this money to RENDER BETTER SERVICES to the people!
C'mon! Good if the government is not riddled with a lot of scandals of graft and corruption. Good if all the money collected from taxation truly goes to the improvement of services in the government. Good if politicians never grandstand to claim that so and so projects are theirs as if the money spent on those projects really came from their personal pockets! Good if our government leaders, especially the politicians, honestly declare all their incomes and tax them all squarely like us who are mere employees honestly working so hard to earn every single centavo that comes to our pocket.
The 7.8 grand per month that goes to government tax would already be enough to provide for the needs of my growing family, especially my 4K. It can buy a sack of rice good for two months in our household, provide good food for proper nutrition of my 4K, buy decent school needs for them, give us some time to visit the airconditioned malls, and perhaps buy better clothes for us, or probably be saved for the tuition fee of my first K in Diliman. But no, the 7.8K goes straight to the coffers of the internal revenue bureau of the government, perhaps waiting to be devoured by the voracious, thick-scaled reptilians!
Who is not outraged when you learn that under-the-table transactions would go by the millions! And that it's so easy for those in government to simply hand-in literally bulks of money in the guise of alleged services for the people? That every single transaction means an S.O.P. is in the offing? And being in the corridors of power, it would be so easy for them to circumvent the bowels of the laws they themselves enacted or endorsed or revised or repealed!
Ahhh... my 7.8K is my 'humble' share in nation-building. Ooopsss, nation-building? Or pocket-fattening activities of a selected few?
Your guess is as good as mine.
C'mon! Good if the government is not riddled with a lot of scandals of graft and corruption. Good if all the money collected from taxation truly goes to the improvement of services in the government. Good if politicians never grandstand to claim that so and so projects are theirs as if the money spent on those projects really came from their personal pockets! Good if our government leaders, especially the politicians, honestly declare all their incomes and tax them all squarely like us who are mere employees honestly working so hard to earn every single centavo that comes to our pocket.
The 7.8 grand per month that goes to government tax would already be enough to provide for the needs of my growing family, especially my 4K. It can buy a sack of rice good for two months in our household, provide good food for proper nutrition of my 4K, buy decent school needs for them, give us some time to visit the airconditioned malls, and perhaps buy better clothes for us, or probably be saved for the tuition fee of my first K in Diliman. But no, the 7.8K goes straight to the coffers of the internal revenue bureau of the government, perhaps waiting to be devoured by the voracious, thick-scaled reptilians!
Who is not outraged when you learn that under-the-table transactions would go by the millions! And that it's so easy for those in government to simply hand-in literally bulks of money in the guise of alleged services for the people? That every single transaction means an S.O.P. is in the offing? And being in the corridors of power, it would be so easy for them to circumvent the bowels of the laws they themselves enacted or endorsed or revised or repealed!
Ahhh... my 7.8K is my 'humble' share in nation-building. Ooopsss, nation-building? Or pocket-fattening activities of a selected few?
Your guess is as good as mine.
